Fangraphs finished their positional power rankings for 2025 last week and the one thing that really stood out to me was the opinion on the Royals pitching as a whole. Royals pitching has been bad to terrible for a very long time. Even when one unit is good, the other tends to struggle.
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In 2008 they managed to have both units ranked in the top half of the league, but it didn’t last. You also had the dominant bullpens from 2012 to 2016, but only the 2014 starting group managed to sneak into the top half of the league during that stretch.